Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'

Theonlyfulltreatiseonarchitectureanditsrelatedartstosurvivefromclassicalantiquity,theDeArchitecturalibridecem(TenBooksonArchitecture)isthesinglemostimportantworkofarchitecturalhistoryintheWesternworld,havingshapedhumanistarchitectureandtheimageofthearchitectfromtheRenaissancetothepresent.Thisnew,criticaleditionofVitruvius'TenBooksofArchitectureisthefirsttobepublishedforanEnglish-languageaudienceinmorethanhalfacentury.ExpressingtherangeofVitruvius'style,thetranslation,alongwiththecriticalcommentaryandillustrations,aimstoshapeanewimageoftheVitruviuswhoemergesasaninventiveandcreativethinker,ratherthanthenormativesummarizer,ashewascharacterizedintheMiddleAgesandRenaissance.